I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded a PDF of 'Pride and Prejudice'. Been wanting to re-read that for a while.

Opened up the Journal, dragged that entry onto the SD card icon at the bottom.

Then opened a terminal and cd'ed into /media, found the mounted SD card volume, looked inside, found the PDF file.

df -h told me how much space was left on the card. It appears I only have room for 20,000 more books.

_Pride and Prejudice_ isn't all that big ... try some of the 600+ pageprogramming books.

That book has no pictures, and compresses well. But even if the average size of the books that interest you is ten times larger, this card still has room for thousands. Certainly more books than I will have time to read in the next 1.5 years. And by then I will take this card out and replace it with one that holds four times more.

All I need now is my yoyo charger and my rollup solar panel and a few spare batteries. Once I have those, I'll never again have to worry that I might suddenly become marooned on a tropical island and die of boredom.

No doubt the 64GB cards will be out in 1.5 years.

As will, no doubt, a version of the XO with more power for olderchildren who will have outgrown a GB of flash and 256 MB of RAM.

All I need now is my yoyo charger and my rollup solar panel and a few spare batteries. Once I have those, I'll never again have to worry that I might suddenly become marooned on a tropical island and die of boredom.

Check the toolbar in the Read activity. I believe you can set the zoom factor up there, at least. I know some of the gamepad buttons work for scrolling, and that better navigation in "ebook mode" is planned.

Forgive me, but I've lost track of SD and SDHC compatibility. Does the XO read both SD and SDHC?

And if it reads plain SD, can it see an entire (relatively rare, or was) 4gb SD card?

Is there any limit to the number of directories, or number of files, which it can see, in general? I have a couple MP3 players which do have restrictions. One, the VAMP 425 sees my 4gb card as 2gb, which is not a terrible problem.

elf.elf.baby wrote:Forgive me, but I've lost track of SD and SDHC compatibility. Does the XO read both SD and SDHC?

And if it reads plain SD, can it see an entire (relatively rare, or was) 4gb SD card?

Is there any limit to the number of directories, or number of files, which it can see, in general? I have a couple MP3 players which do have restrictions. One, the VAMP 425 sees my 4gb card as 2gb, which is not a terrible problem.

The slot can see SD/SDHC cards just fine. There is no limit to the directory depth other than the one imposed by whatever file system you format it with.

I am personally having problems with my Transcend 8gb SDHC (TS8GSDHC6) that when I write too much too fast to it, it gets I/O errors. I don't know if it's just my card because I'm also having trouble with it in card readers on desktop systems.